SAP Knowledge Base Article - Public

2698733 - "E-Mail job to friend" option sending strange to Gmail mail address - Recruiting Management

Symptom

In career site, when using the option "E-Mail job to friend", and the receiver have a Gmail address, there is a long string of characters showing on the mail body. Same mail shows fine in other mails/clients.

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Environment

SuccessFactors Recruiting Management (RCM) - All versions

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to career page
  2. Find a Job posted
  3. Select Action
  4. select "E-Mail job to friend"
  5. send the mail to @gmail address
  6. Mail received is similar to the below

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Cause

This is caused by a restriction by Gmail, that for security reasosn will not display embbeded images when opening mails on web.

Resolution

Remove images embedded in Job Requisition Header / Footer.

Remove images embedded in Mail template used for E-Mail job to friend trigger (by token [[LOGO]] ).

See Also

2238899 - Change Logo in Job Alert Notification

2238479 - E-Mail job to friend - customizing the e-mail body

Keywords

trigger , friend , e-mail , gmail, email , mail , address , E-Mail job to friend , refer , referral , KBA , LOD-SF-RCM-EML , Recruiting Emails and Notifications , Problem

Product

SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting all versions